Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 53
This is almost identical with Uncle Remus's story of how the rabbit robbed the fox of his game.
Who acts: This, rabbit · What happens: be, rob · To what, where: fox
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 identical | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 identical | cop |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 4 identical | advmod |
| 4 | identical | identical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 6 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Remus | compound |
| 7 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 story | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Remus | case |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 identical | obl |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 robbed | mark |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 robbed | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rabbit | det |
| 13 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 robbed | nsubj |
| 14 | robbed | rob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 story | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fox | det |
| 16 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 robbed | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 game | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 game | nmod:poss |
| 19 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fox | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 identical | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | This | with Uncle Remus's story; almost, identical property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rob | past | the rabbit | the fox of rabbit's game | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Source |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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